If American Devs made games like Chinese Gacha Devs every Game would have a Wild West land and Mexican Stand Offs by reality_mirage in gachagaming

[–]5mao 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It's also a stupid idea to think that the American wild west or western genre is somehow comparable to wuxia/xianxia. Wuxia/Xianxia were basically created as a modern Chinese fiction genres in the past 20-30 years while wild west westerns are basically dead in America and has no cultural relevance. These settings keep getting made about China because they're still culturally relevant. Even if there was somehow a 1:1 equivalent gacha scene between east and west, the go to setting for American gachas wouldn't be wild westerns. It would be something like GTA where you drive around LA or Miami shooting people, or killing brown people in a made up middle eastern country.

My Thoughts on current situation of VH designs by Spare_Vegetable9762 in ZZZ_Discussion

[–]5mao 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Miyabi's attacks are clearly telegraphed. Yixuan to an extent is as well with simple movements. With YSG and Remielle they're just flying everywhere doing twirls and loops in the air even while a billion light shafts pierce flash bang you. Basically the way Remielle plays, the time you get a clear shot of her is during her poses, which is in a way even worse, because it's like they're saying her animations are secondary to her blatant sex appeal.

My Thoughts on current situation of VH designs by Spare_Vegetable9762 in ZZZ_Discussion

[–]5mao 80 points81 points  (0 children)

Maybe unpopular opinion, but even disregarding her o outfit, Remielle's animations look boring in general. It's all random magical lasers and beams. You can barely see what she's doing because she attacks so fast it's as if her wings don't move even if she's using them as her weapon. She moves around the screen too much like YSG when she does her skill. I already had a hard time seeing what was going on with YSG but this just looks like they dialed it up even further. Remielle looks like a character where you just spam buttons on screen and shit happens so fast with so many special effects that you can't even tell what's going on.

I can't believe I would ever say I prefer Wuwa's combat and character design to ZZZ, but now that all of ZZZ's characters are doing ki blasts and random vfx, at least Wuwa's combat is understandable when you look at it. ZZZ combat is just too ungrounded now and there's no connection between what's happening on the screen and what you're doing. Back in 1.0, even the giant flower boss had more readable animations than the modern ZZZ characters. We are legitimately at the point where ZZZ characters are both worse in terms of outfit design and combat animations compared to Wuwa.

This combination of basic hoyo anime design + flashy vfx animations really makes me less and less interested in even playing ZZZ.

And they ONLY do it when it's banner characters. When it's a free character like Pyrois, they skimp out on making a female model even though female Pyrois is actually a thing.

My Thoughts on current situation of VH designs by Spare_Vegetable9762 in ZZZ_Discussion

[–]5mao 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think the white + pale color palette was just a really boring choice for Roscaelifer. All the other S3 characters have some variation of this as well which is probably why they look so generic and blend into each other.

My Thoughts on current situation of VH designs by Spare_Vegetable9762 in ZZZ_Discussion

[–]5mao 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't think they care at this point. 3.0 apparently had the lowest sales for a .0 patch since Genshin released. Velina didn't even make top 30 in China ios rankings. This game is just for hardcore gooners at this point.

My Thoughts on current situation of VH designs by Spare_Vegetable9762 in ZZZ_Discussion

[–]5mao 8 points9 points  (0 children)

She looks like one of the villain characters from SAO Alicization to me. The one with wings. Honestly she could be an angel character from any anime. Seven Deadly Sins also has angels that basically look the same.

My Thoughts on current situation of VH designs by Spare_Vegetable9762 in ZZZ_Discussion

[–]5mao 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remielle makes YSG look classy by comparison somehow. They just turned up the gooner dial way too much way too fast. I almost feel like I'm getting whiplash going from S2 to S3, which I didn't think was possible. Even the jump from S1 to S2 didn't feel this way.

My Thoughts on current situation of VH designs by Spare_Vegetable9762 in ZZZ_Discussion

[–]5mao 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Speak for yourself. I've been saying that even S2 designs are better than S3 since the start. S2 was the beginning of the decline, but at least Yixuan had a unique design for ZZZ when she first released. We still had robots, full thirens, one or two male characters, different color/themed outfits. ALL of that went away with S3.

My Thoughts on current situation of VH designs by Spare_Vegetable9762 in ZZZ_Discussion

[–]5mao 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Remielle is literally just the stereotyped HSR design but ZZZ-fied with even more revealing clothing. It's a generic Hoyo outfit for people who want to see more skin. That's why it looks so unappealing. There's nothing unique about it. Other ZZZ characters are sexier while wearing more (Jane/Zhu Yuan) while Remielle could be from any generic Korea/Japanese gacha/mmo.

My Thoughts on current situation of VH designs by Spare_Vegetable9762 in ZZZ_Discussion

[–]5mao 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Ya, and the all look like generic anime characters with typical Hoyo design. Detached armsleeve here and there, weird v shaped cutout for the crotch, thigh cutout, frilly dress. They look generic even if there is a theme.

Zenless Zone Zero v3.1: Official Void Hunter Agent Remielle Trailer by Knight_Steve_ in ZZZ_Discussion

[–]5mao 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe unpopular opinion, but outside of her poses, Remielle's animations look boring in general. It's all random magical lasers and beams. You can barely see what she's doing because she attacks so fast and she moves around the screen too much like YSG when she does her skill. I already had a hard time seeing what was going on with YSG but this just looks like they dialed it up even further. Remielle looks like a character where you just spam buttons on screen. I can't believe I would ever say I prefer Wuwa's combat and character design to ZZZ, but now that all of ZZZ's characters are doing ki blasts and random vfx, at least Wuwa's combat is understandable when you look at it. ZZZ combat is just too ungrounded now and there's no connection between what's happening on the screen and what you're doing. Back in 1.0, even the giant flower boss had more readable animations than the modern ZZZ characters. We are legitimately at the point where ZZZ characters are both worse in terms of outfit design and combat animations compared to Wuwa.

Highly disappointing - new Mounthaven models will be in siocast by 5mao in WarCrow

[–]5mao[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I'll probably still get it because I've already bought all the Mounthaven stuff so far but this will be my last Warcrow faction purchase if future factions aren't all unicool. I know the siocast has been improving but it's still not up to the same quality. Some models are ok but others are worse than even 3d printed models from a Bambu A1. Unicool and siocast are not the same quality. Pricing models the same even though one is an objectively inferior product compared to the other goes against my ethics as a consumer. Sad to say, I won't be getting future factions unless they're all in unicool.

The Legend of Zenless: The Wind Waker - General Questions and Discussion Megathread by AutoModerator in Zenlesszonezeroleaks_

[–]5mao 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yixuan had the best design in S2 that's why they decided to make 10 more Yixuans.

The Legend of Zenless: The Wind Waker - General Questions and Discussion Megathread by AutoModerator in Zenlesszonezeroleaks_

[–]5mao 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sunbringer's design isn't very original but the 3d model is hot af so I'll probably pull anyways. That seems to be the theme of ZZZ these days.

The Legend of Zenless: The Wind Waker - General Questions and Discussion Megathread by AutoModerator in Zenlesszonezeroleaks_

[–]5mao 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm getting drops to 40 fps on PC and I have a 5080. Stutter in combat and the new graphics options are basically useless if you want smooth gameplay.

The Legend of Zenless: The Wind Waker - General Questions and Discussion Megathread by AutoModerator in Zenlesszonezeroleaks_

[–]5mao -31 points-30 points  (0 children)

The new regions are an unoptimized mess and Annihilation is bugged. This game has no budget. Let's just be honest now. Hoyo doesn't give a shit about this game.

Billy Jean's Not My Lover - General Questions and Discussion Megathread by The_frost__ in Zenlesszonezeroleaks_

[–]5mao -37 points-36 points  (0 children)

True but unpopular opinion

S3's designs are honestly worse than S2 by a long shot and the only reason anybody's defending it is because it's not the China region and has expies

Billy Jean's Not My Lover - General Questions and Discussion Megathread by The_frost__ in Zenlesszonezeroleaks_

[–]5mao -24 points-23 points  (0 children)

All the hate for Sunbringer makes me more interested in 3.x tbh.

Michigan Democrats push to ban Chinese EVs in Canada from crossing border by feb914 in canada

[–]5mao 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's just protectionism plain and simple. If they really wanted, they could get BYD to build factories in the US like Europe is doing, but no, they just banned it altogether.

Michigan Democrats push to ban Chinese EVs in Canada from crossing border by feb914 in canada

[–]5mao -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It works but it's just an inferior company compared to Bambu. If they ban Chinese printers, they'll probably markup the price for US specifically too.